If you are presently buying bottled water, you are most assuredly wasting your money. And lots of it. The following points are designed to convince you that you can be sure you are drinking safe water without buying bottled water ever again.
Point one: Bottled water could well be identical to faucet water. This is because in most states there are no regulations regarding bottled water that is exported. It is perfectly legal to put Mountain Fresh, or Glacier Water on the bottle, but to fill it from the tap. Some big name bottling companies have admitted to this and some are volunteering to state on their bottles that what is inside came from the tap.
Point two: In most cities, standards for city water are more stringent than for bottled water. In other words, you are more likely to be drinking safe water out of the tap, than out of the bottle. For many to accept this requires a different thinking. But it is true.
Point three: Bottled water is expensive. If you pay a dollar a bottle, you are paying twice as much for water as for gasoline for your car! Bottled water could cost up to 10,000 times the cost of the same amount of tap water. You are probably spending a minimum of $365/year on forty-two gallons of water that you could get out of the tap for almost nothing. For example, the New York Times stated that drinking the recommended daily amount of water using bottled water can cost an average of $1,400 per year; drinking the same amount from the tap costs around 49 cents for the year.
Point four: Bottling water is wasteful. It actually takes about three liters of water to produce one liter of bottled water. It also takes 17 million barrels of oil to produce the plastic water bottles that are used annually in our country. That is enough to fuel some 100,000 cars for a year. To state it another way, the entire energy costs of the lifecycle of a bottle of water is about equivalent to filling up a quarter of each bottle with oil (So said the Pacific Institute).
Point five: Bottles are not designed to be refilled. The plastic used to make the disposable bottles, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), will tend to breed germs if reused. Further there is evidence that the plastic itself may leach into the water after time and cause health issues. Thus, the only safe thing to do is to throw them out.
Point six: Disposable bottles become a landfill nightmare. It is estimated that 80% to 90% of water bottles are not put into recycling as they should be, but are instead just thrown into the trash. They are not biodegradable and thus will remain in the landfill for centuries. Each year it is estimated that forty billion such bottles are thrown away! We are producing a problem that our children will have to deal with one day.
Point seven: If you are suspicious that your water source is not as pure as it ought to be, another alternative is cheaper, more environmentally friendly, and will carry a better guarantee than bottled water. Gravity fed activated charcoal water filters, like the Berkeys, guarantee that most any contaminant known will be removed to an undetectable level. You can fill your own thermos or hard plastic drinking bottle with it and know that you and your family are drinking the safest, cheapest, and most environmentally friendly pure water available. Why wait when you could start protecting yourself today?
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